The Axis were fucking idiots. Japan going to war against the Commonwealth and USA while they are bogged down in China and meanwhile the Soviet Juggernaut lurked above them.

Germany going to war in the East against the Soviet Union after failing in the Battle of Britain and being required to occupy all of Europe from the Ukraine to France, Norway to Greece. Not to mention fighting against the USA.

But how are you going to get more supplies over? You have no railroads. Your only real port in the region is limited in how much capacity it can handle, and is literally thousands of kilometers away from any targets of strategic significance. Even if you can capture ports farther east, being further away from the air umbrella that is Italy makes it enormously difficult to actually ship anything over to them, and that's assuming the British don't blow up said ports before they retreat.

You were historically running up against a ground based version of the rocketry problem. To haul more supplies east, you need motorized assets, which themselves require significant amounts of supplies to keep running, which starts spiraling up and up forever.

>>273466Urged Hitler to sue for peace. Germany literally controlled mainland Europe, while as >>273591 pointed out, other theaters were stacked against them. They should've withdrawn to the mainland and consolidated. Britain aside, Hitler had already won his people's homeland; what the fuck was he doing trying to take over the planet?

>>273709The end game was most likely to batter the English enough that they would sue for peace, then focus on the Russians and kick the fuck out of the slavs to establish a Germanic superstate.

Unfortunately for them, Churchill had an asshole on him and refused to surrender long enough for the Americans to get in. Without being able to put their full focus on the east, they were quickly put produced by the soviets.

>>273826Because Hitler wanted more people for his Anti-Communist alliance. The stupid part comes where he sold out his long-standing allies in the Chinese (who had been proven to be stupidly anti-Commie when it would have been in their best interests to ignore it) for the Japanese, who had already been kek'd hard by the Soviets when they tried to push into Mongolia.

It was possibly the first instance of the kind of "WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING" mistake that came out of the Third Reich. It was certainly not the first time Hitler stabbed an ally in the back for little gain, however.

>>275741There's a difference between destroying 90% of a unit and destroying its cadre through envelopment. You can rebuild a shattered division through its cadre, you can't rebuild an eliminated division.

Are you seriously trying to claim that the Germans and British didn't raise fresh manpower and throw them into the cauldron?

Because that's what you seem to be claiming, and it's retarded. See the 6th Australian, 4th Indian, 297th infantry (German), and the 14th Panzer division (again German).

You do realize that front line units are very rarely called back for training duties, except as something for them to do when they rotate out of theater for other reasons (usually to rest and refit due to combat damage), right? That the complete destruction of any particular division as opposed to merely mauling 2 divisions down to half strength doesn't actually make all that much of a difference unless your opponent has for some inexplicable reason, completely lost the ability to build new formations.

You seem to have no appreciation for the development of cadre in military recruitment and training; or, for that matter, the purposes for which the cadre concept of officers and senior NCOs was produced in European warfare.

But please, continue prating, because the Chockos were just as effective as 6 Australian.

You seem to grasp the rather simple concept that the training cadres will exist when you form new units, because when you raise those new troops, the cadres are already in place as they're being integrated to formations.

And that wiping out a relatively tiny force in a secondary front for all parties involved won't really slow this process down by one iota.

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